The woman who notoriously attacked a young boy with boiling water in Longueuil in 2024 was sentenced to 27 months this week. The kid, who was ten years old at the time, has scars – physical and emotional.
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Kate
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Kate
The REM was down again for a time on Thursday morning and is in “reprise graduelle de service” between Côte‑de‑Liesse and Deux‑Montagnes as I post.
Uatu
3 days in a row. At this point I’m probably going to head to Longueuil and take the metro (watch the metro break down when I get there lol)
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Kate
The Montreal subreddit recently had a story about a man spotted at a Plateau gym wearing Nazi symbols, and brushing off a challenge from the original poster. In the story, the gym did not respond to the OP’s complaint, but CTV now reports that the gym has condemned antisemitism on social media. There’s some discussion in this piece about an impending law against hate symbols, yet how difficult it can be to act on them.
jeather
I have to say that the whistle was so dog I had never heard of it as a Nazi phrase. (Not the image, just the phrase.)
But also “please don’t wear Nazi shirts when you return to our gym, which you are welcome to do at any time” is not the strongest condemnation.
Kate
Friday morning, CTV says the gym has cancelled the membership of the Nazi.
jeather
Guess there were some other people complaining, more publicly than I did.
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Kate
Police handed out a lot of tickets last year to drivers in “igloos” – cars blanketed in uncleared snow – and to drivers in cars without properly de‑iced windows.
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Kate
A detachment of blue collar workers entered city hall Wednesday after holding a demo outside with protest signs. The union is not happy with the new city budget, which was to be adopted in the council session under way at the time.
I wonder whether the snow removal no parking sign shown in the La Presse photo was already there, or was added by the workers.
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Kate
Two of the men convicted in the plot to murder Anthony Gallo in 2023 – but in which they killed his wife Claudia Iacono by mistake – were sentenced to 18 years each this week. The actual shooter is still to face trial.
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Kate
The SPVM must be trained to deal with autistic people who may be in crisis and unable to express themselves verbally, says police chief Fady Dagher in the Le Devoir piece, later picked up by Radio‑Canada. A pilot project is starting in which police will learn about the different approach needed when dealing with the neurodivergent.
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Kate
Projet’s finance critic Véronique Fournier criticizes Ensemble’s first budget, finding it making unwise sacrifices in terms of city infrastructure to pay off debts.
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Kate
The REM was slowed down Wednesday morning, and service at its Édouard‑Montpetit station is suspended, although this very brief item doesn’t say why. CBC says it’s elevator problems.
La Presse says REM service has been disrupted more than one day in two, this January.
As of 4 pm news, the REM and its elevators are now working properly.
Uatu
Yesterday afternoon the delay had a crowd 10 people deep at central station waiting for the train. I had to wait for 3 trains to pass before I got on. This morning there was a 40min delay and the platform at Panama was completely full of people waiting. They had to reverse the train from downtown to Panama because of the backlog. What was really annoying was being crammed Tokyo subway style into the train and then looking at the bridge which had no traffic on it at all. The REM really wants me to drive again.
jaddle
Looks like the elevators are broken. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/rem-elevators-edouard-montpetit-9.7064756
Kate
Thanks jaddle. I spotted the link and added it, then saw you’d done the same.
Nicholas
Maybe La Presse is reading this blog. The article DeWolf mentions there notes that people understood a shutdown on the first day of the metro sixty years ago, and people will understand the same for the REM, but if it keeps going on month after month that’ll be a problem. Well.
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Kate
Radio-Canada anchor Patrice Roy talked to members of a snow removal crew about what it’s like, while a TVA journalist talked to a blue collar worker about the variety of tasks he’s assigned.
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Kate
The Hydro outage map shows the NDG power out is mostly resolved.
This CTV piece piques my curiosity on another point. It mentions “interim borough mayor Sonny Moroz” as have a few other recent pieces about the Hydro issue. The city page on CDN‑NDG lists Stéphanie Valenzuela as borough mayor, and I don’t see any news items about her resignation or temporary leave. Anyone know?
Kevin
She is on maternity leave
Mark Côté
Finally got power back early this morning. Took most of the day to get back up to a comfortable temperature. No damage aside from a plant that is either dead or just about. One toilet was frozen but thawed out by the evening.
Kevin
Mark,
I noted that you drained all your radiators and your hot water tank. Did you drain the toilets too? And had you turned off water to all taps or did you let them run?Mark Côté
My landlord did the draining but yes it looks like the toilet tanks were drained, and the water was completely shut off everywhere. I’m not exactly sure how the toilet froze (there was some water in the bowl) but it thawed out after a few hours.
dhomas
Even when the water is off, the last flushes to drain the toilet tank will always leave a little bit of water in the bottom of the bowl. This is by design. The gooseneck in the toilet keeps some water from going down the drain pipe to create a water seal, so you don’t have sewer gases coming back up (or rodents or cockroaches). Since the there is very little water and it has room to expand, it generally won’t cause any damage in the bowl itself even if it does freeze. Same for the tank, really. What you’re doing when you empty the toilet’s tank is really emptying the pipe leading to the tank. The pipes have some pressure to them so if THEY freeze, your pipes will burst and cause water damage.
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Kate
City hall unanimously appealed to Quebec for flexibility on the PEQ, but immigration minister Jean‑François Roberge has shut it down.
Hotels are beginning to lose their staff.
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Kate
A quarter of the city’s snow removal machinery is in poor or very poor shape, including half its snowblowers. While Projet had budgeted $45 million for new machines, Ensemble’s recent budget cut this to $18 million.
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Kate
Christopher Curtis writes for the Rover on the new formula for rent increases and how it can only make the housing crisis worse.
Ian
I mean, really – calculating the increase on the interest rates from last 3 years when renters already paid increases on the last two years just feels like landlords trying to squeeze those higher rates as long as they can.
The Chinese Cultural Revolution’s Great Leap Forward had a lot of problems, sure, but Mao had some neat ideas about landlords.
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Kate
A new snow removal campaign will begin Tuesday evening.
MarcG
Despite the fact that we’ve had a lot of snow this winter, I haven’t had the conflicting pleasure of pushing any cars with spinning wheels out of their ruts yet. It would be nice if there were more similar opportunities for random acts of kindness.
Ian
You could shovel an elderly neighbour’s walk or buy a homeless person a hot drink? Im too old for the pushing out cars game anymore but winter camraderie is always cheering 🙂
Bill
A first for me. I saw a bicycle with a cargo trailer get stuck and then required two pedestrians passing by to push it out.
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